Interesting Facts About Easter
| Published: 20th March 2008 14:38 |
Easter this year is Sunday March 23
As you may know:
- Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20 or 21, depends on the year).
- This "dating of Easter" is based on the lunar calendar that Jewish people used to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.
Here are a couple of things you might be interested in!
- Based on the above, Easter can actually only be one (1) day earlier - March 22, but that is pretty rare.
- This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives!
- And only the most elderly of our population (95 years old or above!) have ever seen it this early.
- None of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier!
Here are the facts:
- The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2160 - 152 years from this year!!
- The last time it was this early was 1913 so, if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!.
- The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 - 277 years from this year. The last time it was
- on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!
- The last time Easter fell on the last possible date of April 25 was in 1943. How many of us were around for that one?
- The next time it falls on April 25 will be in 2038.
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